The Internet: Watch It Flex Its Muscle

THINKT@NK - A SALON FOR NEW IDEAS

July 12, 1997

* On Tuesday nights, The Courant's Web site is the place for a one-hour chat room called ``Think Tank.'' Moderated by free-lance journalist Karen Schmidt, ``Think Tank'' will present an issue drawn from the arts, current events, pop culture or the daily grind.

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This week's topic:

Can we all get along?

Will the Internet kill mainstream media? Radio was supposed to kill newspapers. Television was supposed to kill radio. And now the World Wide Web is supposed to kill television. But all the mediums are still going strong.

How will the rapidly evolving Internet co-exist with all the other sources of information in our world?

How much information is too much information? Since none of the other media has conked out yet, how far can it go?